new TalkingArch is here

new TalkingArch is here

[Chris Brannon]

Hi all,
I'm happy to announce the latest edition of TalkingArch, my speech (and
braille) enabled install / rescue image for use with Arch Linux.
The full announcement is available from my blog:
http://the-brannons.com/tarchblog/august2013.html
I'm also providing a .torrent file, and BitTorrent is now the
recommended way to download.  Get it from here:
http://the-brannons.com/tarch/TalkingArch-2013.08.04-dual.iso.torrent

-- Chris

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Kyle]

Trying to seed the torrent on my server, I'm getting a 403 error. I'm
using wget on the server to download the torrent file, but I don't have
permission to download it.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
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"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Littlefield, Tyler]

It's a problem on your end. I downloaded it fine.
On 8/5/2013 1:59 PM, Kyle wrote:
> Trying to seed the torrent on my server, I'm getting a 403 error. I'm
> using wget on the server to download the torrent file, but I don't have
> permission to download it.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/


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Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Kyle]

Tyler,
By the time you downloaded it, the problem was fixed.

Now I'm getting the following message from rtorrent:

(18:12:36) Could not create download: Could not find any trackers

This does appear to be a problem on my end, especially since I thought
rtorrent supported torrents without trackers. Maybe the Debian Wheezy
version doesn't support this. I would run Deluge, but it seems to put a
lot more load on my server's CPU, and rtorrent puts almost no load on
the server at all. I'm currently seeding all the Sonar torrents in
rtorrent, and the server load is almost 0. Maybe I should try using
Transmission. I'll get this thing working eventually.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Chris Brannon]

Kyle <kyle4jesus@gmail.com> writes:

> Trying to seed the torrent on my server, I'm getting a 403 error.

Oops!  This is fixed.
I guess transmission-create creates the file with permissions of 0600?

-- Chris

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Kyle]

I'm still having problems with the torrent file on my server. I was able
to download it, but every client I've tried is having trouble getting
the iso. I tried rtorrent, transmission and even the "official"
bittorrent client, all with no luck. Deluge is working on the PC though,
so I am seeding it here for now. I'll get a permenant seed up on the
server as soon as I can make it work.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Rob Hudson]

I'm seeding with transmission too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle" <kyle4jesus@gmail.com>
To: <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: new TalkingArch is here


> I'm still having problems with the torrent file on my server. I was able
> to download it, but every client I've tried is having trouble getting
> the iso. I tried rtorrent, transmission and even the "official"
> bittorrent client, all with no luck. Deluge is working on the PC though,
> so I am seeding it here for now. I'll get a permenant seed up on the
> server as soon as I can make it work.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> -- 
> "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
> Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Kyle]

Using Deluge on the server, I am now seeding the torrent. My load seems
normal as well. I'll keep it going. Thanks Chris for the new image.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Hi, Chris.

I wonder if I'm missing something, but I got no message to that effect. 
  I started a bittorrent download at around 8:30 this morning.  When I 
checked over five hours later, the .bittorrent file in Downloads 
appeared to have 22,464 (or 22,646) bytes, and didn't grow a single byte 
as I checked several times.  I got rid of that file and downloaded the 
usual way, and I doubt that took much more than 30 minutes.

I seemed to have a similar problem yesterday when using bittorrent to 
bring down a couple of Debian live CD images.  I used bittorrent a few 
years ago, and it worked fine, though I don't remember how long it took.

Can you tell me what I may have done wrong?  Thanks!

Al

On 08/05/2013 01:17 PM, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm happy to announce the latest edition of TalkingArch, my speech (and
> braille) enabled install / rescue image for use with Arch Linux.
> The full announcement is available from my blog:
> http://the-brannons.com/tarchblog/august2013.html
> I'm also providing a .torrent file, and BitTorrent is now the
> recommended way to download.  Get it from here:
> http://the-brannons.com/tarch/TalkingArch-2013.08.04-dual.iso.torrent
>
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
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>

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Kyle]

You will need to open the .torrent file in your favorite bittorrent
client, either using the browser to open the file using the correct
application, or by opening the file with the client you want after it
has been downloaded from your browser. The size of the .torrent file
will never grow, and it is up to you and your client where the .iso file
should be downloaded. What bittorrent client were you using? perhaps
there is a setting that isn't right, or maybe it's just a bug in the
client. I found that some clients, mostly text-based stuff running on my
server, were not able to handle the file for some reason. Deluge seems
to work the best, both on my server in text mode and on my local machine
in graphical mode.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

RE: new TalkingArch is here

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

Thanks!  I guess my mistake was to think that somehow the use of bittorrent
had advanced such that hitting ENTER to download the file there would kick
in whatever client came with Fedora.  I also guess that means I need to
retrieve old, temporary knowledge or get new knowledge on bittorrent.  Who
wants to buy this pre-owned brain for scrap?  :-)

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 5:26 PM
To: speakup@linux-speakup.org
Subject: Re: new TalkingArch is here

You will need to open the .torrent file in your favorite bittorrent client,
either using the browser to open the file using the correct application, or
by opening the file with the client you want after it has been downloaded
from your browser. The size of the .torrent file will never grow, and it is
up to you and your client where the .iso file should be downloaded. What
bittorrent client were you using? perhaps there is a setting that isn't
right, or maybe it's just a bug in the client. I found that some clients,
mostly text-based stuff running on my server, were not able to handle the
file for some reason. Deluge seems to work the best, both on my server in
text mode and on my local machine in graphical mode.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
--
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Kyle]

Normally it should work that way. But your browser will ask you what you
want to do with the file. You should have been able to select "open
with" and your client should have opened once you pressed enter again.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

RE: new TalkingArch is here

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

Thanks!  I'll try that in the future.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 2:30 PM
To: speakup@linux-speakup.org
Subject: Re: new TalkingArch is here

Normally it should work that way. But your browser will ask you what you
want to do with the file. You should have been able to select "open with"
and your client should have opened once you pressed enter again.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
--
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Christopher Moore]

Hello Chris,
Great work on the soundcard selector script.
Now, I can't select a kernel by hitting escape and typing in arch64 or 
arch32.  Maybe something has changed in the /boot directory structure. 
I'll take a look at the iso.

Also I can't boot from USB media.  I get the 30 second waiting for 
device error.  It's trying to mount a loopback device very early in the 
boot process.  I've seen this before but can't remember how to fix it. 
I created the stick by copying the arch directory and installing 
syslinux on it and adding the syslinux mbr.

Chris

On 8/5/2013 1:17 PM, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm happy to announce the latest edition of TalkingArch, my speech (and
> braille) enabled install / rescue image for use with Arch Linux.
> The full announcement is available from my blog:
> http://the-brannons.com/tarchblog/august2013.html
> I'm also providing a .torrent file, and BitTorrent is now the
> recommended way to download.  Get it from here:
> http://the-brannons.com/tarch/TalkingArch-2013.08.04-dual.iso.torrent
>
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: new TalkingArch is here

[Chris Brannon]

Christopher Moore <chris.w1gm@gmail.com> writes:

> Also I can't boot from USB media.  I get the 30 second waiting for
> device error.  It's trying to mount a loopback device very early in
> the boot process.  I've seen this before but can't remember how to fix
> it. I created the stick by copying the arch directory and installing
> syslinux on it and adding the syslinux mbr.

The correct way to create a bootable USB stick for BIOS-based systems is
with dd.  Just use dd to write the ISO image to the stick:
dd if=my-image.iso of=/dev/path-to-my-stick.
Don't write to a partition, write to the raw stick.  For example, use
/dev/sdb, not /dev/sdb1.

The instructions are a bit different for UEFI based systems.
If you have UEFI, I'd advise looking at the UEFI-related articles in the
Arch Wiki.

-- Chris